Combination ink well and felt nib pen



Feb. 13, 1962 s. N. ROSENTHAL COMBINATION INK WELL AND FELT NIB PEN Filed Dec. 12, 1960 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. S'l DNEY N. ROSENTHAL mhwm ATTORNEYS Feb. 13, 1962 s. N. ROSENTHAL COMBINATION INK WELL AND FELT NIB PEN 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 12, 1960 INVENTOR. SIDNEY N. ROSENTHAL BY ATTORNEYS United States Patent Filed Dec. 12, 1960, Ser. No. 75,372 2 Claims. (Cl. 15-517) This application relates to a combination of ink well and felt nib or ink applicator. A prior Patent 2,805,641 of September 10, 1957 shows an ink container having an ink well in which is removably fitted a pen. This application relates to such combinations.

More particularly, this invention relates to a combination having a spring clip for supporting the cap normally used with the pen and which may also be used for bolding the pen in the ink well and to prevent it from falling out.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent upon reading the following description, of which the attached drawings form a part.

In these drawings:

FIG. 1 is an elevation view of a felt nib pen having a cap and a spring clip.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken in the direction of arrows 2-2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a view of the pen taken in the direction of arrows 3--3 of FIG. 1 but with the cap removed.

FIG. 4 is an elevation view of the ink well with the clip secured thereto and supporting the cap of the pen.

FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 4 but showing the pen supported in the well with its nib extending into the receptacle for inking.

FIG. 6 is a top view of the ink well and spring clip, per se.

A prior Patent 2,713,176 of July 19, 1955 shows a felt nib pen. This application shows a similar pen, the same comprising a body 10 closed by a screw cap 10a having a reduced diameter nib holder 11 in which is a felt nib 12 which extends through an open end of the nib holder. The user would normally hold the pen in his hand with nib down and write by pressing the nib 12 down against the writing surface.

Normally, the nib holder 11 is covered by a top cap 13 which fits over it and seals against a shoulder 14 formed on the nib holder to seal off the nib.

The pen is provided with a spring clip 15 which comprised a split ring 16 of springy metal arranged to encircle or partially encircle the body 10. It also includes a clip portion 17 formed of a thin, relatively flat or partially rounded strip which is bowed and which has one end secured by a rivet 18 to a bent out center portion 19 of the ring 16. The free end of strip 17 is normally spring urged so that it would remain within an extended diameter of ring 16. Hence, it presses against the body 10 to hold it in a pocket of a garment.

The receptacle or container or ink well, as shown in FIGS. 4-6, comprises a container 20 which has a sealed cover and a reduced well or tube 21.

The container has in it a felt pack 22 saturated with ink.

Well 21 may contain a wick or pad, as shown in Patent 2,629,359 of February 24, 1953, in which case the pen nib 12, in well 21, is wetted by such pad or wick, rather 7 3,020,578 Patented Feb. 13, 1.962

than by the felt pack 22 in container 20. 'In any case, a pen nib in well 21 will be wetted by ink at the bottom of the well.

For re-inking the pen or for using the pen in a way where the pen is normally inserted in the well and reinked between uses, that is, where the pen is not normally carried around in someones pocket, the spring clip 15 is removed from the pen and is arranged to encircle or grasp well 21 at its lower end, as shown in FIG. 4. Here, the clip portion 17 is arranged upwardly and is sufiiciently springy and bowed so that its free end would extend radially inwardly of an extended diameter of well 21.

As shown in FIG. 4, the cap 13 for the pen may be inverted and slipped over the end of the clip portion and stored there when not needed. This may be during the time that the pen is in use or while the pen is inserted into and stored within the receptacle. In this way it is secured against being lost or misplaced when the pen is used with a well.

When the pen is inverted and inserted into well 21, its nib 12 contacts the ink wetting means at the bottom of the well.

As shown in FIG. 6, the spring clip 17 is shown as moved up on well 21 so that it presses cap 13 against pen 10 to thus lock the pen against well 21, frictionally to hold it in place so that it cannot easily be dislodged or dropped out in the event that the container should be knocked over or moved.

This invention may be further developed within the scope of the following attached claims. Accordingly, it is desired that the foregoing description be read as being merely illustrative of an operative embodiment of this invention and not in a strictly limiting sense.

I now claim:

1. In combination, an ink container and a felt nib pen; said container including at the top a vertical tube or well opening into it and inking means 'at the bottom of the well; said pen having an elongated tubular body and also having a smaller tubular nib holder formed at one end in which is and through which extends a felt nib, and also having a cylindrical cap removably fitted over the nib holder for sealing 0115 the nib when the pen is not in use; said well being of a slightly larger diameter than the pen body so that the pen may be inserted, nib end down, into the well with the cap removed to be supported by the well with its nib in wetting contact with the inking means at the bottom of the well; the combination including a spring clip comprising a split springy ring removably encircling the pen body, but being sufficiently springy so that it may be enlarged and thus removably encircle the well; said clip having a flat strip of springy metal secured at one end to the ring and extending at right angles to it; said spring clip being interchangeably attachable to the pen body for clipping the pen to various objects, and to the well for entering into and thus supporting said pen cap to one side of the well and capable of simultaneously pressing the cap against the pen body and thus spring holding the pen body against the interior wall of the well and thus frictionally holding the pen in the well.

2. In combination, an ink container and a felt nib pen, said container including at the top a vertical tube or well opening into it and inking means at the bottom of the well; said pen having an elongated tubular body and also having a smaller tubular nib holder formed at one end in which is and through which extends a felt nib, and also haying a cylindrical cap removably fitted over the nib holder for sealing off the nib when the pen is not in use; said well being of a slightly larger diameter than the pen body so that the pen may be inserted, nib end down, into the well with its nib in wetting contact with the inking means at the bottom of the well; the combination including a spring clip comprising a split springy ring removably encircling the pen body, but being sulficiently springy so that it may be enlarged and thus removably encircle the well; said clip having a flat strip of springy metal secured at one end to the ring and extending at right angles to it; said spring clip being interchangeably attachable to the pen body for clipping the pen to various objects, and to the well for entering into and thus supporting said pen cap to one side of the well and capable of simultaneously pressing the cap against the pen body and thus spring holding the pen body against the interior wall of the well and thus frictionally holding the pen in the well; said strip normally exerting frictional bias against the pen body when the clip is on the pen, or

10 against the well when the clip is on the well.

No references cited. 

